Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake
Captain Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake (January 14, 1749 – October 18, 1810) born Thomas Drake, later Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt, was a British Member of Parliament for Amersham UK Parliament constituency from 1795-1810.
Early life and family
Thomas Drake was born on 14 January 1749 the second but oldest surviving son of
He married, on 8 August 1780, Anne Wickham, a daughter of the Rev. William Wickham of Garsington, Oxfordshire.[1] The Rev. Wickham was the proprietor of the manor of Garsington and, when he died, 1770, the estates passed to Anne; when she married Tyrwhitt-Drake, they entered his family and remained part of its estate until it was sold in 1914 to Philip Morrell.[2] Together, they had five sons and three daughters:[1]
- Captain Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (1783 - 1852) was a Member of Parliament for Amersham from 1805 to 1832.[3]
- William Tyrwhitt-Drake (1785 - 1848) was a Member of Parliament for Amersham from 1810 to 1832.[3]
- Reverend John Tyrwhitt-Drake, Rector of Amersham, married Mary Annesley, third daughter of Arthur Annesley of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire. He married secondly Emily Drake-Garrard, fifth daughter of Charles Drake Garrard.[3]
- Reverend George Tyrwhitt-Drake, Rector of Malpas, Cheshire. He married Jane Halsey, second daughter of Joseph Halsey of Gaddesden.[3]
- Frederick William Tyrwhitt-Drake.[3]
- Mary Frances Tyrwhitt-Drake.[3]
- Anne Tyrwhitt-Drake. She married Hugh Richard Hoare, of Lillingstone, Buckinghamshire.[3]
- Louisa Isabella Tyrwhitt-Drake. She married the Rev. John Anthony Partridge, rector of Cranwich, Norfolk.[3]
He held the post of Sheriff of Glamorganshire for the year 1786-7 and was commissioned into the Amersham Volunteer Infantry as a Captain in 1798.[1]
Member of Parliament
The borough of Amersham was a "Rotten Borough" in which a leading family, here the Drakes, controlled the seat and could effectively choose who the borough's two Members of Parliament were. Since 1790, William Drake and his son, also called William, were the two Members; however, in 1795, the younger William died and so Tyrwhitt-Drake, being the next younger son, filled his vacant seat. A year later, the elder William resigned his seat and died shortly afterwards.[1][4] He is buried in Amersham with a monument by John Bacon.[5]
He was largely a supporter of the administration of
References
Citations
Bibliography
- Burke, John (1837), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn
- Fisher, D. R. (1986a), "Tyrwhitt (afterwards Tyrwhitt Drake), Thomas Drake (1749-1810), of Shardeloes, nr. Amersham, Bucks.", The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820, London: Secker & Warburg for the History of Parliament Trust
- Fisher, D. R. (1986b), "Amersham", The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820, London: Secker & Warburg for the History of Parliament Trust
- Lobel, Mary D. (1957), A History of the County of Oxford, vol. 5, London: Victoria County History